For those of you who don’t know, Malaysia has very, VERY tight regulations on sports supplements and you are unable to purchase most of the new stuff that hit the shelves overseas here in Malaysia. Maybe the US FDA is not good enough for some doctor that bums in the government office I suppose? I’m not talking about steroids or anything illegal here.

Not only that, if you were to attempt to get it shipped to you, it would be confiscated by the Malaysian Customs. So we Malaysian fitness enthusiasts have to be content by just reading the amazing product reviews and drooling at the ads in bodybuilding magazines.

Hovercraft are largely regulated according to the environment they operate in. For example, a hovercraft operating over land is considered an off-road vehicle.

Over water, your craft will be considered to be a boat.

Most vehicles are required to be insured (whether as a boat or an off-road vehicle, or both). Here, we will briefly address these three issues.

Land Operation

Usually off-road vehicles cannot be operated on public roadways. In certain municipalities, some regulations for ATVs apply.

The ATV operating restrictions and equipment requirements may also apply to hovercraft depending on local area legislation. You may need headlights (and sometimes tail lights) to operate near public roadways (or after dark).

When going boating, it is very important that you follow the boating regulations of the state you intend to go boating. When in Ohio, you have to follow Ohio boating regulations, when in California, California boating regulations and when in Florida, Florida boating regulations! This is because individual states have their own methods of dealing with different boating mishaps and problems.

In modern America, many neighborhoods are organized as developments. Such developments often have rules and regulations that can be surprisingly restrictive.

Planned developments are all the rage these days in real estate. A developer doesn’t just build a bunch of homes any more. Now, they build an image of a particular type of living style. To maintain this image, the developments come with rules and regulations that can be very overbearing. If you fail to read them thoroughly before making an offer on a home, you may be in for a nasty surprise when you move in.

Most sites on the web are at least faintly familiar with the implementation of legal regulations related to their sites. Most, however, have never heard of the California Catch-22.

Most sites tend to view complying with legal regulations as a somewhat amorphous subject. You know you are supposed to do something, but are not particularly sure why or what to do. This leads to the rather humorous situation where many sites have terms and conditions that are completely inapplicable the what they are doing and also look startlingly similar to terms and conditions found on other sites. One might even imagine a bit of “cut and paste” was going on, but who am I to say!